computer science

The secret things you give away through your phone metadata

By Nsikan Akpan

Two studies explain exactly what people can learn from your metadata...and how to stop them.

Paintings show the intricate artistry of computer chips

By Corinne Segal

Artist Angela Gilmour looks at the process of fabricating computer chips as an artistic endeavor.

Engineers create collapsible battery powered with the help of dirty water

By Carey Reed

Engineers at Binghamton University have created a paper origami biobattery that gets its charge from a drop of dirty water.

With more than 200,000 unfilled jobs, colleges push cybersecurity

By Kirk Carapezza, WGBH

From UMass Boston to Vermont’s Champlain College, institutes of higher education are trying to boost the number of graduates in a field that barely existed ten years ago: cyber security. And they're scrambling to keep up with increased cyber security…

8 things you didn’t know about Alan Turing

By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy

Alan Turing is hailed as the father of the computer, single-handedly helping the Allies defeat the Germans by cracking the Nazi Enigma code. But he was also a gifted athlete, a sloppy dresser and defiant in the face of the…

Your eyes could open your bank account or play “World of Warcraft”

By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy

New biometrics technology could open your bank account, email, or help you play "World of Warcraft".

How tiny ripples can reconstruct sound

By Colleen Shalby

An experiment called “The Visual Microphone” aims to “recover sounds from highspeed footage of a variety of objects with different properties."…

Firefighters get high tech to douse wildfires

By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy

Using satellites, communication networks and weather sensors computer scientists have created WIFIRE, which analyzes burning wildfires and predicts where they will spread.